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September 2019

September 29, 2019

Timothy Schmalz’s stunning sculpture of migrants and refugees unveiled at Vatican

From Vatican News: "Angels Unawares” is a life-size sculpture in bronze and clay, that depicts...

June 2019

June 21, 2019

Vatican Official on Reviewing Sex Abuse Cases: ‘You Never Get Used to It’

I am in St. Petersburg this week for the Catholic Media Conference, and heard Msgr....

June 17, 2019

Vatican Document for Amazon Synod Proposes Ordaining Married ‘Elders’ as Priests

Details (roughly translated): The Instrumentum laboris outlines an "inculturated liturgy" : "The need for a process of...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

Evangelization Ahead of Doctrine? Report Suggests Major Vatican Shift

From Crux: A new “super dicastery” on evangelization might be one of the most significant...

March 2019

March 08, 2019

Vatican Stats: Worldwide More Catholics, Bishops, Deacons; Fewer Priests

Catholicism by the numbers: The percentage of Catholics in the world has remained steady, while...

February 2019

February 23, 2019

Wow: A Journalist Tells Bishops to Clean Up Their Act or ‘We Journalists Will Be Your Worst Enemies’

The Catholic Herald dubbed this the one speech from the abuse summit you should read,...

February 15, 2019

Cardinal Farrell: ‘I told the Holy Father I’d accept the job if he would speak at my funeral’

The good people at Rome Reports yesterday interviewed the new camerlengo, American Cardinal Kevin Farrell....

January 2019

January 16, 2019

Vatican releases details of February abuse meeting

From Vatican Media: The Director ad interim of the Holy See Press Office, Alessandro Gisotti, on Wednesday...

December 2018

December 07, 2018

WATCH: Unveiling of sand sculpture Nativity scene at the Vatican

Check this out, via CNS: Details: The annual unveiling of the Vatican's Christmas tree...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

Squeeze: Legatus announces it will not collect 2019 tithe for Holy See

Details: A U.S.-based organization of Catholic business executives has decided not to collect from its...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Is the Vatican getting ready to censor Catholic sites online? — UPDATED

One passage in the final document of the recently-completed Synod of Bishops is raising eyebrows: ...

September 2018

September 07, 2018

Confirmed: allegations about McCarrick were known by the Vatican in 2000

From CNS: A top official from the Vatican Secretariat of State acknowledged allegations made by...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Carlo Maria Viganò: ‘The man who took on the pope’

That's how The New York Times describes Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in a new report out...

August 16, 2018

Vatican issues statement on Pennsylvania Grand Jury

From Vatican News: On Thursday evening, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg...

August 02, 2018

BREAKING: Pope Francis changes Catholic teaching on death penalty

In the current edition of the catechism, the teaching on the death penalty reads: 2267 Assuming...

July 2018

July 04, 2018

Cardinal: priests have no experience, credibility to prepare couples for marriage

From The Irish Times: Priests have no credibility when it comes to training people for...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

Pope Francis surprises poor at special dinner

From Vatican Media: There was great celebration on Friday in the Vatican when some 280...

June 28, 2018

Pope Francis on his critics: ‘I feel a pain and a pray for them’

The latest installment in Phillip Pullella's wide-ranging interview with Pope Francis for Reuters: When Pope...

June 08, 2018

Vatican: ‘We don’t want to preclude anything’ regarding women or married priests at Amazon summit

From Crux: At a press conference on the summit of bishops focusing on the Pan-Amazonian...

June 03, 2018

Historic: Pope Francis appoints first-ever lay person as rector of Pontifical Lateran University

From America: In another historic step to assign key positions in the Catholic church to lay people, Pope...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

Fake news: That report on Saudis striking a deal with Vatican to build churches

From John Allen at Crux, an update on a story that generated significant buzz last...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

Pontifical commission proposes a Synod of Bishops on women

From CNS: The Catholic Church in Latin America must recognize and appreciate the role of...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

A beautiful new resource: Vatican releases text for Way of the Cross written by young people

From the Holy See's website: The texts of the meditations on the fourteen stations of...

March 05, 2018

Cardinal Kasper: ‘Tradition is not stagnant’; Amoris Laetitia is not heresy

From Vatican News: As Cardinal Walter Kasper turns 85, the former President of the Pontifical...

March 01, 2018

Vatican magazine slams treatment of nuns

From Reuters: A Vatican magazine denounced widespread exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labor...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

“The real challenge for Francis is to go beyond rhetoric…”

There's been some discussion around the blogosphere about last night's "Frontline" on "Secrets of the...

January 2014

January 13, 2014

NY Times: Some in Vatican are “like frustrated teenagers, closing the door and putting their headphones on”

The paper sizes up various headlines of the last few months, and gets some reaction: ...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

A beggar before the baby: a preview of the Vatican’s Nativity scene

Unsurprisingly, it has a decidedly Franciscan (as in the pope) approach. From those crackerjack journos...

December 11, 2013

Pope Francis medallion added to St. Paul Outside-the-Walls

The Vatican's Facebook page notes: Pope Francis' medallion portrait has just been added yesterday to...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Vatican may create new role for women—on cricket squad

From Catholic News Service: The Vatican is about to launch its own cricket club and...